“I heard Realtors have to disclose if the house is haunted,” Leon said.
I looked at Mom in the driver’s seat. She gave me an amused smile. No help there.
“Apparently only four states require you to disclose paranormal activity,” Arabella reported. “Nine states require you to notify the buyer if a death occurred on the premises. And Texas does neither.”
“There were no deaths on the premises. Nobody died in the house, so it can’t possibly be haunted,” I told them.
“How do you know nobody died?” Leon asked.
“Because I checked the records,” Bern rumbled.
“That doesn’t mean anything,” Arabella said.
Clearly, there were two teams in this vehicle: Team Facts and Team Facts Be Damned.”Andrews, Ilona. Ruby Fever, Hidden Legacy 6. Avon HarperCollins, 2022. Kindle edition, page 3
The Book Devouring Horde, the name for Ilona Andrews fans, stand united as a force to belove. Our fluffiness lies in the way we balance each other’s strengths and weaknesses, quirks and extremes. We remind each other of what is real and what is absolutely, gloriously NOT. And in the end, all that matters is that we all come together in appreciation for the same wonderful books.
But a quick stroll in any BDH comment section will quickly make you understand the reality of the Baylors conversation above. Following several requests and fan group polls, let’s find out which brand of chaos you bring to the Horde table!
Take the quiz below and embrace your destiny.*
*Disclaimer: not your actual destiny. As usual, the results are just for fun because I’m not the real Sorting Hat, I just look like it #wrinklelife. Please don’t take the quiz if this month has taken everything out of you and it could make you real-life upset. Hug(h)s!
Also, the quiz plugin doesn’t play nicely with the newsletter. If you’re getting this in your email, you can click here to come straight to the blog and take it.
I am Team Facts are King! Also first?
🥇 Certified.
me too, also there is an answer missing on the end if the series question. obviously when one ends House Andrews can tackle something brand new…maybe Puffles? maybe something we haven’t seen at all yet. I miss the Edge but I’ve enjoyed all the others too and new is always exciting when it comes to House Andrews
+1
+1
Thank you for survey. But must say that Saiman ship is most unsuitable *eye twitch*
My brain short-circuited and there might have been a tiny fire with the ensuing meltdown reading that question caused 🤣
+1 😂
Yay Team Facts.
On another note, the Julie/Saiman question gave me the shudders.
Team facts unite! There is no evidence to support this shipping theory!!
I might have thrown up a little had I not forcibly ejected even a hint of this from my mind.
I screamed *NOOOO* at that one.
oh it Hurts Mod R, that burned!!
of course that answer contributed to my Creaky Trees qualifications. lol
Saimon as he was last written absolutely (a weasally coward who only cared about his own well being). I think you could do interesting things with his character, especially if you gave him a reason to care about the happiness of some people who are not himself. I trust that house Andrews could make it work but it seems unlikely. Augustine started in a similar place to Saimon and he’s become a much more sympathetic character over the series.
Hey, all y’all shuddering over Julie/Saiman shipping: how many hated Hugh? You wrote him off as insufferable, kill him now, right? Fess up.
+!!! 😱😱😱
+99
MOST unsuitable. MOST. No discussion.
+1
+1
+1
same team here!^^
though watching the antics from the other teams are also fun hahaha
+1
I’m a Space Chicken too. 😀
Yay! Team Dushegub!
2nd?
Team Dushegub Proposal: Multiple spin-off series or we destroy your planet. Care to discuss?
Absolutely! Team Dushegub is the epitome of all that devours!
Me too!
Team Dushegub all the way!
yup me too
Yup. Team Dushegub
Darn straight.
Go ‘Gubs. Discuss
Team Dushegub – YAY! DEVOUR
Team Dushegub. We live to devour. No discussion necessary 🤣
Yup, to devour is the meaning of life!
We live to devour. Go ‘Grubs
Team Facts be damed!
Me too! Facts. Be. Damned.
Thank you for the fun quiz! I need to find me that BDH dark web…
Team Dushegub… I am apparently one who devours books, facts, cake… (ok, I added the cake part. sue me, I have a craving.)
Don’t we all? We Dushegubs devour like no other.
Team Facts! (We’re not boring, you take that back!)
Who said that? You point them out to me!
🤣🤣🤣
uh oh Mod R is letting the Dushegub out.
Oh wow, near the top of the list, and Team Chalent. I must get a badge!
me too
I want to see all the factions! I love the one I got (dushegub), but I want the deets on all the other options.
This was fun. thanks for putting it together!
+1! I’ve been known to keep taking the quizzes until I get all the options, just to see them. 😁
Team Dushegub. 😄
Yes I got Team Chalant and I’m very satisfied…. but now I want to know all the options and have a chart showing what percent of the BDH got what result!
I would love a chart !
+1
Team Facts here. I want to read about all the other teams, too. More facts for the gristmill!
Are you sure you are Chalant? Perhaps you are secretly Team Facts. Clearly, you are not team Dushegub because otherwise, you would have stated: “Proposal: You give us all team information and a detailed chart of the BHD team percentages or we …. Do you wish to discuss?”
That was most awesome.
+1
Me too!
Thanks, this was fun. 😁
(Also Team Chalant.)
+1
me too
Patiently near the top of the list. We wait and wait. good things to come.
thank goodness someone else is Team Chalant as well!
We get emotional support fries! 🍟🥰 Better than a badge right?
I’m assuming here that each team has a different image and that not every team receives emotional support fires and I managed to somehow mistype fries and am now torn on whether to correct it or not 🤔
Awwwwww!! I am Team Chalant. How wonderful and resonant too. 🥰 sitting in all my fluffiness like a space chicken on a perch.
Also, my usual mantra for dealing with tough times (Fear is the mind killer etc) has been officially replaced by the one about the Void.
+1
<3
The “inner peace” video Mod R posted the other day is another one we of the Chalant part of the Horde can do along with the Void prayer.
I also am team chalant and the line about ‘going with the flow but need to know when it starts and whether I need socks’ resonated with my approach to life in general 😆
+1
+1
+1000
+1
+1
Me too! Maybe the Andrews have another career in astrology lol
+1
Another +1! Team Chalent rule (and we really do need to know the rest of the teams and their definitions) 😉😉😉
+1
So very, very, very true!
Team Facts here — I may be retired, but I’m a reference librarian forever! Thanks, ModR, this was fun.
Ditto this! I’m Team Facts, too, and a librarian. 🙂
I encourage everyone to come to the fact side!
I’m a Team Facts librarian, too!
Also Team Facts and a retired librarian. I just can’t stop researching.
Yet another Team Facts retired librarian. I sense a pattern.
Team Facts – accountant & library volunteer! 😆
Okay, clearly librarians love both HA and facts. +1 ❤️
My answer: You are a member of Team Facts are King.
I think it’s a wee bit amusing that all we librarians are Team Facts!
Careful research is king!
I think it’s well beyond a wee bit hilarious. Also Team Facts are King here. Not a librarian myself, but my grandmother was, and her father owned a bookstore.
Add an engineering major (now physician, clinical researcher). Must have all the facts.
Any chance of art pdfs to make our own horde cohort buttons?
Team Facts and a current librarian 🙂
Same! LOL
Yet another former librarian reporting to Team Facts – I guess I found my people 😂
I’m a former applied research engineer..
Same!
And Reference Archivist here! *high five*
Cracking up! Team Facts and another librarian!
Tesm Facts not a librarian but a database programmer.
Team facts and a biostatistician. Hehe I see a trend
I’m a biostatistician too. However, I’m part of Team Chalant. 😁
Team facts and not a librarian ( but my mother was)
Team Facts and a former research scientist. But in my youth, I was a super star member of the library club :D.
Woohoo!
Team Facts are King!!
I’m space chicken. Huzzah!
I want to be a space chicken too…..
Awwww. Now I want a space chicken t-shirt. Lol
Team Facts are King would like to politely request a space chicken shirt design.
This is great, I’m really curious to see the other categories and how the numbers come out across the horde spectrum haha!
+1
+1
Team Chalant! Whoop-whoop! I have the t-shirt to prove it. 😀
Second time I took the quiz, I became part of team Dushegub. Nah, I want to still be Chalant.
Inner peace, inner peace, in inner peace…stop that racket! No, I don’t wish to discuss! Chernobog, grant me patience.
Team Dushegub, and proud of it!
mee tooo…but I’d like descriptor of all the teams in case I want to covertly spy, convert or jump…keeping my options open….just saying ….😁🤭
+1! So far, I think we have Team Facts are King, Team Facts Be Damned, Team Chalant, Team Dushegub, are there any more?
That’s everyone 🙂
No team Space Chickens? I got Team Facts are King, myself. Not a librarian or an engineer or anything of the sort. Just someone with a really good recall of storylines I’ve read.
Team Facts are King are the space chickens lol
I’d buy that. Space chickens are sooooooooooo funny!
+1
Team Facts – no surprise, I guess. (I am old after all, and just hoping to live long enough to see all of what’s planned for Kate and co. …)
Me too!
me three!
I am quite content being in Team Facts are King! 😉
I was torn between answers on a couple of these, so I did it twice. First time I came out Team Dushegub (yes, I totally devour all the books). Second time I was Team Facts.
By the way, I’m running short of reading material again, and Audible’s end of the year stats made comments about how often I re-listen to audiobooks. Can we have a new recommendation thread (or two), Mod R? Please & thank you
Team Chalant!
Woo hoo Team Chalant!
second?
I can give you 27th? 🙂
I can’t stop laughing!!! I am team Chalant. This is so me…. You are happy to go with the flow, but you would like to know what time the flow starts and how many pairs of socks you need to pack for it.
Thank you Mod R. Yep, still laughing!!!!
This hit home for me too!
Yep, I am Team Chalant and it suits me perfectly.
Now I wish I had purchased some Chalant stickers when the store was open.
Agree! I’m Team Challant and never read a better description of myself.
Same, and happy with it since I took the quiz 3 times because several different answers appealed but got Chalant all 3 times. Hahaha, guess that says it all.
Exactly!!!
never mind computer duped me
Fun! Thank you.
Go Team Facts!! I try not to slip into wanted facts to often but sometimes it is fun to dream wildly. This was a great quiz. I might steal this idea and tweak it for my students in reference to grading. LOL. some of their ideas are wild. Thank you for a fun lunch on Friday.
PS This is the only writer blog I follow and it is the best.
team chalant….and. what EarlineM said.
I am team Dushegub. I thought I was a really calm person. Who knew?
I think the Dushegubs actually are very calm and factual about their… suggestions… to discuss 😂
Team Dushegub – will test again…
I don’t think it means you’re not calm. simply willing to devour. some may devour loudly, some may be sneaky, some may be persistent… many many ways and things to devour. feed me Seymour!
Definitely team chalant! So accurate
Team Facts – which isn’t really surprising but I’d like to be a dreamer too….
this is because we did the poll in the FB group, right?
Yep – plus the requests that came in 😀
Team Facts. The quiz was fun.
Team Facts are King! I’m kinda surprised but it does work for me. My husband came out Team Chalant!
I’m Team Chalant and I NEED this artwork on a shirt. Mug. Stickers. Bookmark. Mousepad. Book bag.
Thank you for the quiz ModR. You know the BDH so well. 😘
It was on a shirt back when the merch store was open. But there’s no news of that happening again.
We devoured the store too! There’s no end of the devouring in site. 😀
Yes, I sadly bought the smaller version of the sticker and wish I had the larger one. LOL Oh well, I can live in hope! (and a tiny bit of denial about the store never opening again, even if I sympathize with the reasons)
Team Dushegub all the way!
You write, we devour! Do you wish to discuss?
that should be the official BDH motto
Definitely my motto anyway…
Though I apply it to a couple or three other authors too !
+1000
Team Chalant……..
I am very seen 😉
Happy snowy (my part of the north) weekend.
team facts are king – interesting….love this thank you
Yay! Rocking Team Chalant!
Great quiz, Mod R, thanks for the laughs! As a now confirmed member of Team Facts are King, I was hoping there might be a way for you to give us the breakdown of what percentage of the Horde ended up in each group after the quiz. My curiosity needs more facts please!
Team Facts are King. I just retired from a job that required a lot of researching, so that makes sense.
Looking forward to Maud’s wedding… (In-Law pain and humiliation INCOMING!!!)
And even though I’m Team FAK, I still don’t like those three words….
Team Dushegubs *yay* and I have the T-Shirt to prove it! 🙂
took the Quiz a second time, just for fun – with different answers but still Team Dushegubs*lol* guess there’s no discussion to that
Depends how many answers you changed 🙂
uhm…. seven? 😂
Mod R, will we skew the BDH stats if we take the quiz more than once?
No, feel free 🙂
Dushegub, huh? Well, if it fits… 😀
Team Facts 🙂 . But watching Team Dushegub is always entertaining.
Agreed. If the size of the Dushegub faction becomes too large, can we expect virtual industrial-strength weedkiller and fire?
Kill it with BEAVERS seems to be an option in the quiz 😂😂
Team Chalant! All the way!
Cute! I’m team facts and I loved the final comment on probably believing Klaus was actually a dragon hehehehehe. Going to go run thru a few other choices now and see what I get. Looking forward to more snark. Thanks!
Team Dushegub all the way is totally me!!
Team Chalant <3
Thank you very much for the quiz! This was FUN 🙂
I’m Team Facts are king. Not surprising.
If it is not too much trouble, could you please post the different outcomes?
Team Chalant! love this quiz 🙂
+1
Team Facts are King.
This was really funny. Thank you! Team facts are king here.
Team Facts are King. You got me.
Ok, found team chalant and team dushegub in my next two forays. This is really a cute quiz! Thanks again, ModR!
🙌🏼🤣 Team Facts are King! 🤣🙌🏼
Team Chalant! Extremely fluffy! and yes, I do refresh the blog once a day, without fail 😜 Thanks Mod R, this was fun!
Me: Team Dushegub?! Who wrote this?! How dare they? I would never!
Proposal #37: New Spin-offs and Why They Are Necessary.
Me: Okay well sure that does describe me pretty well….
Team Facts are King!
I stand firmly with Team Chalant. But please sir can I have some more 🙏🥺😄
Team Chalant all the way, baby.
Also, not to be nitpicky (I lie, I’m totally nitpicky), but shouldn’t the new graphic have Barsa Barsa not Basra Basra? I do like that graphic, though. Especially the puppy eyes on the left side.
It’s not a new graphic, it’s one of the old merch proofs. The person saying it is in a trance. The joke was removed in the final design, which had Barsa.
Oh, I don’t remember seeing it before. Sorry.
Maybe we could call “Basra, Basra” the Texas way of pronouncing “Barsa, Barsa”. It’s a twang thing in Texas. 😀
Like Baltimore is pronounced Balmore by the locals?
You may secretly be team facts. Just saying.
Cackling. Thank you Mod R for the silly quiz. I will be here on Team Chalant trying to keep that approach in other aspects of my life toooo.
Team Dushegub – now and forever!
Team Chalant!!
I’m team Dushegub!
Team Facts are King! And as such, I would like to see a blog post with all the different teams, their wonderful descriptions, and a breakdown of where the horde lands 🙂
Team Dushegub!
Team Chalant! Behold me and my chalantitude. All the chalantness. Full of chalantry.
But you know I’ll take probably take it again . . .just for funsies. 🙂
I evidently have an inner Team Dushegub.
Inner Team Dushegub…hmm, yes, that works for me! Plus I’m stealing chalantness, thanks for that!
Team Chalant!!!
Fun! I’m Team Facts, with First Scholar Thek.
Team Dushegub for the WIN! creeeek, hissss, hissss, knock 🙂
Team Chalant!
And I do need to know how many pairs of socks to pack – because I’m moving! I’m trying to decide if I need my “real” copies or if my e books will tide me over well enough during the time between (between houses, between jobs, between …)
I will try harder to be fluffier.
PS – Mod R – your quizzes are the only online quizzes I take!
Team Facts are King!! We have tea and the very best snacks…come and join us!
Jack Camarine spin off????? Plus Gaston???? this was an option????? I just re-read all the edge books I AM READY.
p.s team dushegub, I do not wish to discuss 😉
Woo-hoo! Team Chalant!!! I embody fluffiness!
Oh my! Who knew I was Team Dushegub! *Must* Devour *More* books [No need to discuss]
team facts are king!!
but listen, once the facts are in and the book is out, devouring time!!!!!
Yasss! Team Dushegub!
Mod R – I was just on Graphic Audio site downloading KD8 and see that they have added KD10 – Magic Triumphs for preorder. It wasn’t there a couple of weeks ago when I ordered KD9. Just thought I would mention it.
Yay!!!!! I’m Team Chalant, vibrating with anticipation.
yup!
Team Chalant! That description is spot on!
Also the phrase “BDH colleague” is pure gold.
Team Chalant!!!
woohoo!! Team Chalant, very fun!!
Had a grand smile! Happy Friday everyone!!
I’m a tiny bit jealous..I was one of the orders that got screwed up, so I didn’t get my chalant merch.
(a wee bit mournful), but I did get the nechist stuff! yay!
This made me laugh out loud. thank you.
Glad to have this community.
Team Chalant! Love House Andrews and I don’t mind re-reading! Fun quiz.
Yes Team Facts, I am a Space Chicken.
Love it, thank you.
“You are a member of Team Facts are King.”
Hah! Yep, that fits! 😁
Team facts, lol, never would have guessed.
This quiz was hysterical. 🤣🤣🤣Thanks, Mod R! I end up in Team Facts, but I can be Team Facts Be Damned when it comes to the next Innkeeper books. Loved the Dushegab’s proposal for more Innkeeper books. 😁
Team Chalant-Huzzah!
so apparently I’m team CHALANT trying so hard to be good…but looking for all the crumbs 😆😆😆😆
Team Facts! 🧐🎉
Woohoo, I am Team Dushegub! Do you wish to discuss? (But I’m sure I could also be an honorary member of Team Facts Be Damned 🙂 )
Team chalant 🙂
Team Dushegub 🎊💃🎊
Let’s paaarrtyyyy 💃💃💃💃
I find it absolutely hilarious that no one is fessing up to being Team Facts be Damned, when the answers for it were mostly based on actual comments of the BDH 😀
A lot of them are in the beginning of the comments. They’re sticking together. 😉😁😂
Bwahahaha!! 😆
Over dinner the other night, the discussion had clear divisions between Team Facts and Team Facts Be Damned. My teens were divided between these teams. I wish I knew which character was embodying Team Facts Be Damned b/c I can envision the Space Chicken for Team Facts.
I took the quiz multiple times to get all the answers 😜 and I _think_ they got the werewolf…? I could be mistaken!
Facts be Damned are not the werewolf, that’s the dangerous lands of monsters and rugged terrain they live in though 🙂
That does sound better, yes 😅🤗
You are a member of Team Facts are King. Woohoo!
Team Chalant. I’m not ashamed! Consuuuuume words.
I don’t know what the other options are, but team Dushegub seems right. What else is one supposed to do with a book but devour it?
I tried a second time, changing a few answers, hoping for Team Facts. However, I just got Dushegub again. I guess my fate is to devour.
I am Team Facts are King
They thought Hugh #1 was going to be an April Fool’s joke. The joke was on them – and I hope they made a lot of money, since it’s a wonderful story.
so fun!! thank you!
I am Team Chalant. Definitely, packing extra socks and snacks while I go with the flow. I am a Library Assistant and enjoy research too. I’m curious to see the descriptions of the other outcomes. They sound like fun.
mod r – thanks for this. I’m team chalant. when everyone had had a chance at this, would you publishall the different team summaries?
I loved how you had written the one for my crew
I’d love to read the others but don’t want to retake test and fake answers to get to see their descriptions. thank you! Jo